John gibbons



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J. GIBBONS. y STRAP FASTENBR'POR HALTERS.

Inventor:

Patented June 19,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JOHN GIBBONS,` OF VEST TROY, NEV YORK, ASSIG-NOR- TO THE UNION HARDVARE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

STRAP-,FAsv-rsrlEa` FOR HALTERs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,-5'61, dated June 19, 1883.

Application filed January 26, 1883. (No model.)

To all whoml it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GIBBoNs, of the village of Vest Troy, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and 5 useful Improvement in Strap-Fasteners for Halters, oi' which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a novel fastening device for attaching the webbing-straps of V1o halters to halter-loops.

Accompanying this specification, and forming a part of it, is a sheet of drawings containing two iigures illustrating my invention, the same letter reference as to the designation I 5 of parts being used in both figures.

Figure 1 illustrates in perspective a halter having a webbing-strap, the 'ends of which, that form the loops to'receive the rope, are shown as attached by my fastener. Fig. 2

2o shows my improved fastener as appearing be fore it is applied.

The elements of 4constrdpuction of which my invention is composed are designated by letwardly and inwardly toward each other with a clinch bend, so as to inclose the two thicknesses of the webbing above the loop, the purpose ot' the teeth T being to puncture and hold thetwo thicknesses ofthe webbing grasped 4o by the fastener and to prevent them from being pulled apart.

The letter H designates the halter-loop, XV the webbing-strap, and S S the loops formed l in the latter by which the strap may be moved 45 around' on the rope forming the halter-loop.

To apply my fastener, the webbing NY is passed around the rope H, forming the halterloop, with a suiiicient lap for attachment. The cut end of the webbing is placed against the 5o projecting` edge, E. Theteeth Tarethen forced into the two thicknesses of webbing formed by the lap and the webbing in Contact with the lapping end, and then the clamping-ends L L are turned over and down inwardly with 5 5.

clinching bends.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

VAs an improved article of manufacture, the 6o fastener consisting ofthe plate I), formed with the inward projecting edge or flange E, the teeth T, and the clamping ends L, constructed substantially as described.

Signed at the city of Troy, this 23d day of 65 January, 1883.

JOHN GIBBONS. Witnesses:

JUSTIN KELLOGG, HORACE L. HIcKs. 

